Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days last week before the House Judiciary Committee Wet speakers stormed and thundered at Prohibition-as-is, but all their torrid talk did not change a single Dry vote in Congress. The occasion was the first official hearings given by the House to proponents of modification (TIME, Feb. 10). The Judiciary Committee had before it seven resolutions proposing repeal of the 18th Amendment, of the Volstead Act. Anticipating a large audience, Chairman Graham moved his committee temporarily into the vast white marble Caucus Room of the House office building. Some 200 spectators appeared, more than half of them women. Though...
...Wet witness, introduced to the committee as "a gentleman and a scholar" by Illinois Wet Representative Sabath who had never seen him before, was Walter W. Liggett, onetime Minnesota newsgatherer. Lately Mr. Liggett has been investigating Prohibition conditions in several states and writing for Plain Talk such articles as "Holy Hypocritical Kansas," "Michigan, Soused and Serene,"Bawdy Boston," "How wet is Washington?" His testimony was largely a rehash of his writings. Excerpts...
...Griggs, long a docile Dry, switched to Wetness just before the election, said that though he believed in Prohibition, he would vote to repeal the 18th Amendment if his district so desired. Obvious to all was his straddle. Mr. Granfield was 100% Wet. Republican Senator Gillett asked voters to elect Candidate Griggs as an endorsement of President Hoover. Democratic Senator Walsh asked them to elect Candidate Granfield as a repudiation of President Hoover's do-nothing policy on unemployment and industrial depression...
Impartial observers agreed upon the significance of the Massachusetts by-election, predicted, among other things, that: the State would elect a Wet Democratic Senator and perhaps Governor next November; it would vote to repeal its local Prohibition enforcement law-a wet step toward defeating the 18th Amendment already taken by New York, Nevada, Wisconsin, Montana, Maryland; the November Congressional elections would disclose an economic unrest in the tall grass, due to industrial depression, far deeper and darker than G. 0. Politicians now dare admit...
...then through an eight inch deep foot bath. There are two shower rooms, one on each side, containing 30 showers apiece. On the pool floor there are over a thousand lockers in rooms directly under the grandstand seats. Participants will not have to enter these rooms while still wet as there are two drying rooms furnished with hot air ventilation between the showers and lockers. Also, there are squad rooms and visitor's rooms on the same floor...